What's New
BY Sarah Patterson June 19, 2026
What's New June 17, 2026
Reshuffles with the redundancies at SCA
With three regional teams wrapping up this week on the Hit and Triple M networks as part of foreshadowed job cuts, SCA have also shuffled the shows that now will cater to the areas that have lost their breakfast shows, as well as the leadership model that guides them behind the scenes.
In Western Australia, Triple M Bunbury’s Michael & Angie (Leah Tindale is currently covering Angie’s maternity leave) will expand their show to the areas that were home to Triple M WA‘s Robbie & Carly. Robbie & Carly finished yesterday, June 16.
Hit Newcastle’s Jess & Rohan (pictured main) will also broadcast to a wider audience. How much of Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania that means, where Bronte and Lakey (QLD) and Dan and Christie (regional Vic and Tasmania) broadcast to up until this morning (see below) we shall see.
SCA has further streamlined its content leadership with a dedicated regional network head for both Hit and Triple M.
Jase Allen becomes Head of Hit Network Regional. Phil Bradley, Head of Triple M Network Regional. Blair Woodcock, the Head of Content – Regional who also stepped into the General Manager role with the Gold Coast stations Sea FM (where Bronte and Lakey broadcast from) and Triple M GOLD in March last year, now focuses exclusively on his Gold Coast responsibilities.
Some of the other losses to the Seven team have emerged. In the Sydney and Melbourne newsrooms Chris Maher, Brianna Jackson, Amy Clements, Phoebe Worthley, and Rochelle Brown, Estelle Griepink andInga Neilsen were either made redundant or took a voluntary offering.
Natarsha Belling, who was for a long time a newsreader with Triple M but shifted last year to present the Seven national news at midday, is also out. Tarsh also appears to have wrapped up presenting LiSTNR‘s daily news and current affairs podcast The Briefing.
Grace Fitzgibbon, who started out a newsreader with 2CC and 2CA in Canberra, has also taken a voluntary redundancy. She had hosted the ray of sunshine that was the Bright Side segment that wrapped up the evening 7News bulletin in Sydney until she went on maternity leave earlier this year.
Surely they will get new state shows for regional QLD and VIC, then put a local show in Hobart! Then give Hit Albury/wodonga to Jess and Rohan
At this point they may as well pipe Jess & Rohan into Sydney too.
Hopefully Hobart learns to love League… dumb move to broadcast rugby into a footy state
As someone who worked in the industry for a decade and has been running my own business for 15, looking at how ‘local’ our HIT station is has forced us to refocus our ad spend, removing radio completely.
Brekky Show, networked. Midday, networked. News, Traffic etc. hubbed. Weekend news, always leads with a NSW story (we’re in Vic) Weekend weather, AI that hasn’t pronounced our region correctly since it started.
I’m now spending on signage at the local footy, supporting our local Blue Light and bought a few boxes of beanies to hand out to tradies. I feel like I’ve had a better response to that than our previous radio/tv spend.
It really disheartens me as I have many friends still in the industry, and some who’ve been shown the door. The unfortunate thing is once the listeners and advertisers are gone, you’ll never bring them back.
The ‘big-wigs’ should have a look at the correlation between their cuts on on-air offerings, versus the decline in ad revenue. They are the problem.